The city's best Halloween club nights and parties

Fancy mixing up your Halloween celebrations this year? It falls on Monday October 31 2016 and Paris is bursting at the seams with spooky nocturnal activities. Prepare to rave until dawn, pay tribute to your favourite nineties vampire slayer and party in a former slaughterhouse. Halloween is followed by a bank holiday this year so there is no excuse not to party hard. All you need is an awesome costume and a post-night out brunch spot and you have yourself one excellent Halloween weekend.

Chicago-born Pitchfork Festival has become a barometer for cool in the the indie music world. Every year, the French version takes place around Halloween at la Grande Halle de La Villette and brings with it plenty of Brits in search of a good boogie. Pitchfork falls on the bank holiday weekend of October so you can throw some shapes to the likes of M.I.A, Mount Kimbie, Warpaint and Bat for Lashes, without worrying about getting up in the morning.

The formidable Gilles Peterson returns to the Bellevilloise for an extra special Tea-Time set. Celebrating the 7th year of this collaboration with La Rafinerie, the English DJ promises an selection of the very best artists, ending on a set which blends his signature soul, funk, afrobeat and cuban sounds.

Inrockuptibles magazine invites you to their nineties-style Halloween party to pay tribute to Buffy and Spike, complete with fake-blood cocktails. The magazine team are taking over the decks, so expect to be plunged straight back into your spotty teenage years.

Cabaret Sauvage is celebrating Halloween with a bit Latin spice this year. Venezuelan, Colombian and Mexican bands will be lighting up the stage from 8pm to 5am on the Monday night. Expect live sets from Cumbia y Cardon and Sonora de Cumbear, followed by DJ sets from Captain Cumbia, the Original Batichica, Cambimba and Cocosett.

Insomnia rec. [ Halloween ]

When? Monday October 31 11.59pm-10amWhere? A secret warehouse on the edge of ParisHow much? €15

Descend into the sombre universe of Insomnia, the techno music collective who could practically raise the dead. In the middle of a disused factory, Gescu, Re-UP and even Denis Kaznacheev will keep you dancing from midnight to 10am but don’t worry, Monday is a bank holiday so you can party as hard as you like.

Faust decided to invite techno veteran Marc Houle to their Halloween shindig. Which is lucky because his minimalist tunes go perfectly with the club’s spotlighting (also perfect for showing up the best bits of your costume.)

Fancy dancing java with some long-dead Mexicans? Expect cheek-to-cheek dancing with Day of the Dead-style skeletons in beautiful dresses and a soundtrack of latin and groove from Cascabel son factory, A La Diabla and Cucurucho.

When? Monday October 31 11pm-6amWhere?BatofarHow much?€10 in advance, €14 on the doorThe Voodoo Rave collective is plunging the famous red boat-club into a nineties techno universe for the night of Halloween. With Jerome Hill, Mooly, Ed Isar vs. Aprile on the decks, expect the kind of techno bacchanale to raise the (un)dead.